This took around a half hour. After that I just flashed fresh .5. Its so much faster than the stock version of the phone and less bloat ware. Whatever you do need that not installed is put on the sd card anyway.

I'm guessing the root subforum is for people who are actually interested in rooting. Am I wrong for asking this general question in the general forum? Or do you mean a different one of the other sub forums?

I did finally break down and root my hero after a while and I really want to root my EVO but it seems like there are a few issues right now.

1. Still getting sprint updates
2. I want to make sure my phone doesn't need to be returned, already have an issue with HTC sense randomly stops responding that nobody seems to know anything about.
3. I'm not really sure how stable these ROMs are yet, I only used aloysius on my Hero which was a theme rom that I liked aside from having like NO internal memory.
I know everyone loves Fresh but don't kow enough about how it runs/looks to justify taking the risk for.

I did finally break down and root my hero after a while and I really want to root my EVO but it seems like there are a few issues right now.

1. Still getting sprint updates
2. I want to make sure my phone doesn't need to be returned, already have an issue with HTC sense randomly stops responding that nobody seems to know anything about.
3. I'm not really sure how stable these ROMs are yet, I only used aloysius on my Hero which was a theme rom that I liked aside from having like NO internal memory.
I know everyone loves Fresh but don't kow enough about how it runs/looks to justify taking the risk for.

I definitely will root eventually, just not sure when.

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I actually have Aloysius over my Fresh .5. So colorful . But yea, fresh is great. As soon as I booted it up I noticed how much smoother and quick it was than stock

with the coming of Froyo 2.2 and android being open source, why would anyone want to root and run the risk of an unstable phone? Seriously, I have an Evo and with all these apps, growing on a daily basis and hacks such as launchpro and so on, why would I want to root?

I understand people jail braking an iphone due to its close platform but never understood android roots.

Man I just watched the video in the Fresh ROm thread ...his ROM seems really nice.

Can you elaborate on it a little bit, any info would be great. Battery life, speed, free memory( I prolly won't use apps2sd) What kinda of stock apps/bloatware did he remove...does everything work as if it was stock?

I'm looking into the easy root method and if it still works, I may root the easy way...other way is just too much blah for me right now

Man I just watched the video in the Fresh ROm thread ...his ROM seems really nice.

Can you elaborate on it a little bit, any info would be great. Battery life, speed, free memory( I prolly won't use apps2sd) What kinda of stock apps/bloatware did he remove...does everything work as if it was stock?

I'm looking into the easy root method and if it still works, I may root the easy way...other way is just too much blah for me right now

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Can't comment much of the battery yet since I just flashed it yesterday. I will post back a bit later just to give you at least an impression on what to expect.

Speed wise everything is just more snappier and its easily noticeable. I literary noticed it in the first 10 seconds.

In terms of bloatware everything from sprint is removed besides sprint tv. All the bloatware can be found on the sd card though and all you have to do is install the atk from the sdcard (just find it in explorer and install). Just a hour ago I noticed he didn't include voice search, so I just went into the explorer and installed it.

The only possible problem I could have is that 4g keeps connecting and reconnecting. So I'm reading up on the whole radio scene. I barely had 1 bar in the apt before I even rooted so its not like it totally killed it. Almost everywhere I go doesn't have 4g coverage yet so I can't really say much.

Atm you can't root if you have the ota update. If you have it, you need to wait .

Anyway just look into it if you're interested. It honestly was painless and this was my first time doing something like this.

I could buy another one, but I feel I have the best of both worlds. Rev 3 with Nova screen and don't want to mess it up in case I do something wrong. I also don't want the hassle of if something happens and I need to have the phone serviced or replaced, ending up with the bunch of flack over warranty.

I'm going to hold tight for FROYO and to see how HTC handles the Camera and FPS issues. They have till the end of August.